"Walter, come on Walter… you know you are too big to sleep with your head on top of me!"
Jane continued to mumble something that Maura did not understood, and then she started giggling.
"Stop it Walter, that tickles!"
The fever was causing Jane to be delirious for the past couple of hours. The only thing that Maura could make sense of was that it involved a guy named Walter. Who the hell was Walter? Jane did not mention seeing any new guy… Maura could not help but to feel a sting of jealousy and then some guilt, as she thought to herself: Stop it Maura, she is in a life or death situation and you are worried about some guy? But then again, life altering moments make you realize that life is a precious gift, and that things can change in a minute, the ones you love the most can be gone in a glimpse of an eye… And there she was, beside her best friend after she shot herself to save her brother. And in that moment, in the silence of the hospital, in between the metronome beeps of the machines around Jane, Maura knew that she could not pretend that her feelings for Jane was just friendly ones.
"Walter, are you awake?" – Jane continued in her delirium – "I'm so glad Maura bought you for my birthday. You know…." The rest was just inaudible words, but Maura had already understood. In her fever Jane was talking to Walter the thoroughbred she wished for her birthday. She could not help but to laugh and squeeze Jane's hand, whispering… oh Jane…
"Shhhh, be quiet Walter. It's our secret, Maura can't know this, she can't know that I love her… be quiet and just sleep" Jane said as she patted Maura's head.
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